Word: waitress
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...foods from Los Angeles to London. Once, a defector from the black network who was being interviewed in New York where he was in hiding turned to Beaty for a little spending money. "I gave him the last $100 out of my pocket," he says, "and he tipped the waitress...
...first Terminator, a model of clean craft and violent wit, was a retelling of the New Testament's Annunciation story: the Archangel Gabriel (a rebel from the 21st century) visits the Virgin Mary (a Los Angeles waitress named Sarah Connor) to tell her she is to be the mother of a political messiah -- and that if she wants to give birth to this redeemer, she must stay out of the terminator's steely grasp. In T2, 10 years later, the T-man is back, but on the side of the angels. His mission is to protect Sarah (Linda Hamilton...
...will find as well the stamp of acceptance on the dreadful herstory ("an alternative form to distinguish or emphasize the particular experience of women"); the execrable womyn ("alternative spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequence m-e-n"); and the absurd wait-person (waiter or waitress) and waitron ("a person of either sex who waits on tables"). Future lexicons, perhaps, will give us waitoid (a person of indeterminate sex who waits on tables...
...irresistibly likable: the gentle, bewildered Thelma, married to a smug, low- rent, philandering salesman who wears more gold jewelry than she does, and for whom, when she takes off, she leaves dinner on a child's partitioned plate in the microwave; and Louise, the world-weary, wised-up waitress who has waited too long for her lounge-singer boyfriend to marry her. But rather than finding their way with their female natures intact or even being able to reach out to the one decent man who could help them, they become like any other shoot-first-and-talk-later action...
...roles for women in student productions ("I can't tell you how many times I played a prostitute") and eager for more freedom, Khouri dropped out after five semesters. She moved to Nashville, where she worked as an apprentice at a local theater, then supported herself as a waitress -- like Louise -- before migrating to Los Angeles. There a job as a receptionist with a production company introduced her to the world of music videos. "I loved the work, but I was unhappy with what came out of it," Khouri says. "There was the dilemma of having very strong feelings about...